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Now What?: Quandaries of Art and the Radical Past

Now What?: Quandaries of Art and the Radical Past

Weiss, Rachel

Hardcover

Art Criticism & TheoryLiterary CriticismGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0823293912
ISBN13: 9780823293919
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: Mar 2 2021
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Now What? is an innovative exploration of artworks and films that return to radical histories subject to erasure or otherwise lost or occluded over time. The moments returned to--the Cuban Revolution, Chile's 1973 coup d'état, the ambiguous 1989 revolution in Romania, and the mayhem surrounding the Red Army Faction in 1970s West Germany--stand as historical watersheds, foundational and precipitate moments in the history of radical politics. Delving into these key historical moments by way of Tania Bruguera's 2009 performance Tatlin's Whisper in Havana, filmmaker Patricio Guzmán's decades-long cycle of returns to Allende's Chile, Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujica's Videograms of a Revolution, Corneliu Porumboiu's 12:08 East of Bucharest, the film Germany in Autumn, and Gerhard Richter's October 18, 1977 suite of paintings, Rachel Weiss convincingly threads these works together through subtle and illuminating reflections on the complex dynamics involved in historical trauma and memory, addressing key questions about the meanings and uses of the past.

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